Thought of Dog. In Train-Lorry Smash
Semi-conscious from the shocking accident in which his father was fatally injured when their lorry collided with the Forbes passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Rule of Road in Europe
On and after May 1, 1939, Czechoslovakia traffic must keep to the right instead of to the left. The only European countries now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Modern Transport of Stock Speed on the Roads
It may be years before large mobs of either cattle or cheep are transported direct from the paddocks to the railway yards, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Main Roads Millions to Be Spent Policy for Year
During this year the Main Roads Department's programme will involve an outlay of about £3,500,000 in the maintenance of 25,000 miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Matters Replies to F.S.A.
In reply to a conference request that the Hallway Commissioner convey woolpacks at the "miscellaneous", instead of the "A. class" rate it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →800 Tram Drivers Apply for Bus Jobs More Pay Attraction (By Wire) Sydney
Eight hundred tram drivers have applied to become bus drivers. In batches of 30 they will be put through rigid tests in the new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dangers of the Road
In these columns each week the warning is conveyed to the public on road safety. Whether their contents are thoroughly digested or not may be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Drive for Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
The appaling death toll of the road during the Christmas and New Year holidays has caused an awakening of public interest in the need for making…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Notes Improperly Fastened Car Doors
The Royal Automobile Club of Australia states that the practice of fitting hinges on the rear of car doors has added considerably to the risk of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Improvement
By an expenditure of £50,000 a year, he said, it was hoped to achieve a noticable improvement during the next few years in eliminating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sudden Death When About to Catch Train
As she was preparing to catch a train to convey her to her home at Hurstville, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Lindfield, a former resident of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Continue Suspension Bridge Destroyed by Wire) Sydney
A message from Sydney states:—The suspension bridge over the Nepean River, at Malton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Neck Broken in Motor Smash at Forbes Truck And Car In Collision Wm. Ernest Geo. Whittaker's Death Truck Driver on Manslaughter Charge
WILLIAM ERNEST GEORGE WHITTAKER, aged 27, a married man with a wife and two children, was killed instantly when riding in the "dicky" seat of a Ford roadster car which met head-on in a collision with a Fargo truck in Forester…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed at Bathurst Ex- Sergeant James Jenkinson Motor Car Smash
A former sergeant of police at Forbes and Bathurst for many years, James Jenkinson (70), recently of Albury, was fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety. The Highway Code
The Minister for Transport and President of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales recently had published a code comprising such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. France Increases Petrol Tax
M. Reynand's "rehabilitation" decrees—about which there has been labour trouble in France—include a tax increase on motor spirit of 21…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Killed In Motor Smash. William Whittaker
While riding in the "dicky" seat of a Ford roadster car which met head on in collision with a Fargo truck in Forester street, Forbes, at about midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Improvements
While the roads of the State are being gradually improved in the interests of safey, the Minister for Transport said that it was impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety Control
The toll of death on the roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays has again stirred the public to a demand for more effective…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Drive For Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
The appalling death toll of the road during the Christmas and New year holidays has caused awakening of public interest in the uned for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →